What happens when you bring people together in a common space to discuss media literacy and the world? Synergy. This word is what to me encompasses what transpired at the 4th International Media Literacy Research Symposium in Madison, Wisconsin. After two years, the world at a standstill and so much of our lives devoted to online work versus face-to-face, this … [Read more...] about Global Collaborations/Synergistic Relationships — The International Media Literacy Research Symposium
Editorials
The Wisconsin Idea Takes Center Stage at International Media Literacy Research Symposium
A Letter from Karen Ambrosh, Managing Editor of The Journal of Media Literacy Having Madison, Wisconsin as the backdrop for the 2022 International Media Literacy Research Symposium holds so much significance, not only for our organization’s foundation, but for the values that are the underpinning of the future of media literacy. The International Council for Media Literacy … [Read more...] about The Wisconsin Idea Takes Center Stage at International Media Literacy Research Symposium
Making the Human Connection to Algorithms is a Monumentous Task
A Letter from Guest Editor, Belinha De Abreu, PhD Arriving at this journal topic and the many articles therein came from a variety of conversations, conferences, and meetings that were discussing the issue related to artificial intelligence and the algorithm. In exploring the possibilities of where technology was taking us, it became clear that the next step … [Read more...] about Making the Human Connection to Algorithms is a Monumentous Task
Reflections on Living with a Journal Topic for a Year: The Human-Algorithmic Question: A Media Literacy Education Exploration
A Letter from Karen Ambrosh, Managing Editor of The Journal of Media Literacy In January of 2022, Belinha, Melda and I began the conversation of how we would build the next journal issue around Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. Understanding that algorithms are the building blocks to machine learning and artificial intelligence was the first step. Often these terms are … [Read more...] about Reflections on Living with a Journal Topic for a Year: The Human-Algorithmic Question: A Media Literacy Education Exploration
The Human Algorithmic Question: A Social Justice Imperative
A Letter from Guest Editor, Melda N. Yildiz, EdD As Artificial intelligence (AI) systems and machine learning algorithms have been used to automate decision-making processes from education to economic sectors, there is an inevitable impact on democracy and social justice. Cathy O’Neal (2016) reveals real-life impact stories of algorithmic injustice in her book, “Weapons of … [Read more...] about The Human Algorithmic Question: A Social Justice Imperative
Media Literacy from an Ecological Perspective: A New Normal that Makes us Question What Was Normal
A Letter from the Editors As we publish our first online issue of The Journal of Media Literacy, we are keenly aware that this is not just a change in format, but also an adaptation to an ever-changing media environment. It is part of the evolution of culture, suddenly greatly accelerated by unforeseen, indeed catastrophic events, yet inevitable if seen over the passage of … [Read more...] about Media Literacy from an Ecological Perspective: A New Normal that Makes us Question What Was Normal
Blooming in the Doom and Gloom: Bringing Regenerative Pedagogy to the Rebellion
Abstract: Transformative sustainable pedagogy and public intellectual work share the same aims and guideposts, including upholding higher education’s foundational intentions of fostering moral character in tomorrow’s leaders. Radical modes of sustainable education (including regenerative pedagogy, which tends to the global shift to restore, respect, and regenerate … [Read more...] about Blooming in the Doom and Gloom: Bringing Regenerative Pedagogy to the Rebellion
Coal’s Last Gasp, Its Resuscitation by the Media and the Habitus of NIMBY
Abstract: The shift away from coal to renewable energy for electricity generation is producing environmental benefits during the climate crisis but also poses uncertainty for coal producers and others along the coal supply chain. Media representations of the coal debate shape how citizens understand and respond to it. This commentary exposes how audiences – even of … [Read more...] about Coal’s Last Gasp, Its Resuscitation by the Media and the Habitus of NIMBY
Fake Climate News: How Denying Climate Change is the Ultimate in Fake News
Download full article pdf >> After the 2016 US-presidential election and Brexit referendum, fake news emerged as a quintessential democratic problem that media literacy was tasked to solve. The broad social concern about fake news acknowledges that the public sphere is a kind of commons that requires tending, and reminds us of the human (and civic) need for … [Read more...] about Fake Climate News: How Denying Climate Change is the Ultimate in Fake News
Media Education and Ecological Modernism: Embodiment, Technology and Citizenship
Abstract: The field of media education, emerging within the instrumental vision of modernity, has largely ignored its unspoken modernist assumptions. In this article, we argue the time has come to fully engage an embodied view of media from an evolutionary, ecological perspective—what we might call ecological modernism. This is a perspective that views media as evolving … [Read more...] about Media Education and Ecological Modernism: Embodiment, Technology and Citizenship
Moving from STEM to MESH
Abstract: America is falling behind the rest of the world in science and math. There is, therefore, a renewed emphasis on STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). But while mastery of STEM subjects is essential to the functioning of society, we’ve neglected some other areas that are at least as important, if not more so. But without an equal commitment to … [Read more...] about Moving from STEM to MESH
Sustainability Education, Responsible Truthfulness and Hypnotic Phenomena
Abstract: I propose in this essay that a key to rebalancing life systems now being harmed by human activity requires a return to the priority of “truthfulness” as practiced by traditional Indigenous cultures for whom words are sacred vibrations of energy, requiring close attention to how one describes reality as truthfully and holistically as possible. This contrasts with the … [Read more...] about Sustainability Education, Responsible Truthfulness and Hypnotic Phenomena
